Clutter Muck 🏰🗑️🚮

Being an occasional observation of the clutter, overgrowth, rubbish; and needless, unrecovered, forgotten or squint signage that mucks up Edinburgh.

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@edinhelp All still there a month later, all around Canonmills & Warriston

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@ConeworxTM @edinhelp
A few left on Warriston Path, and Eildon Street/Inverleith Row after works finished

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Not good - Arthur's Seat right now
@theSpurtle @joshpizpom

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@edinhelp

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@edinhelp Also on Eyre Place and Howard Place

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Windy evening + unlocked bins + impatient residents + unemptied (reported) bin = at least two litter picking exercises by local Wombles...
@edinhelp @EildonStreet

[Clutter Muck 🏰🗑️🚮 @ClutterMuck]

Windy evening + unlocked bins + impatient residents + unemptied (reported) bin = at least two litter picking exercises by local Wombles...
@edinhelp @EildonStreet

[Clutter Muck 🏰🗑️🚮 @ClutterMuck]

Windy evening + unlocked bins + impatient residents + unemptied (reported) bin = at least two litter picking exercises by local Wombles...
@edinhelp @EildonStreet

[Adam Tranter @adamtranter]

What if I told you we could make crossing the road easier, more comfortable, and make walking more attractive for short journeys?

What if I told you this could be done at a fraction of the cost of the usual way, by using "simplified" or "side road" zebra crossings?

What if I told you the studies have shown they have high levels of compliance, even without the usual Belisha beacons?

What if I told you the presence of these simplified crossings is merely reinforcing pedestrian priority already detailed within the Highway Code updates?

What if I told you civil servants and Government ministers use them every day (the video shown is outside the Department for Transport offices), but only because one local authority decided to take a risk and try them out (credit Westminster City Council), despite official guidance not permitting them.

What if I told you they could cost as little as £300, compared to between £50,000-£100,000 for a full zebra crossing with Belisha beacons.

What if I told you they were already commonplace all across Europe?

What if I told you, starting March 11, 2026, Welsh local authorities can install simplified zebra crossings at side road junctions in 20mph zones? (because: Devolution)

It's about time England got a move on and permitted them through updating The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016. The Government could also publish the long-awaited Manual for Streets 3, while they were at it.

[Clutter Muck 🏰🗑️🚮 @ClutterMuck]

BTW not "completed"...

[Clutter Muck 🏰🗑️🚮 @ClutterMuck]

Easy to unlock, easy to overfill, easy to ensure that when the wind blows everyone's half-baked attempt at disposal ends up down the street. Again.
@edinhelp
@EildonStreet

[Clutter Muck 🏰🗑️🚮 @ClutterMuck]

@ScotRail @networkrail what possible benefit can come from stopping @voitechnology bike parking at your Calton Road entrance to Waverley station?
Lots of empty tarmac, away from pedestrian routes, and now a simple transport interlink is ended.
@cllr_jenkinson
@SpokesLothian

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@edinhelp @Edinburgh_CC 102000204912

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Reported last week, reported this week.
If @Edinburgh_CC wants to encourage more pedestrian passage, there needs to be a fraction of the upkeep devoted to keep cars on streets
@edinhelp
Eildon Street ➡️ Warriston Path

[Cllr. Finlay McFarlane @FinlayMcF]

Open sesame! @HistEnvScot works to mitigate the castle rockfall have enabled this much loved local cut-through in Princes St Gardens to reopen.

Work still to do to open remaining closed parts of the garden 👷 🪏

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Or bigger bins....

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@SoundhouseOrg @queens_hall @edinhelp @Edinburgh_CC @VodafoneUK It's your property , along with @edinhelp , that has been fly-posted

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Well done @SoundhouseOrg and @queens_hall
Flyposting for @McFallsChamber and others all over North Edinburgh, including every @bt_uk box.
Are you going to come and remove them all on 18 November, or leave it to @edinhelp ..?

[Clutter Muck 🏰🗑️🚮 @ClutterMuck]

And the answer was no...
Well done @SoundhouseOrg and @queens_hall
@edinhelp @Edinburgh_CC

[Fountainbridge @fountainbridge]

What a great place to dump a big trailer. Right on the pedestrian crossing point of the pavement at the busy Gorgie / Dalry junction. Hang your head in shame @Edinburgh_CC for allowing this. @GDCC_ @LivingStreetsEd @DisabledGo @RNIB_campaigns

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Residents now removing the (inevitable) ice sheet across road
@EildonStreet

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@edinhelp @scottish_water
Water leaking on Eildon Street, road already frozen
@LivingStreetsEd @SpokesLothian